Improvement in washing-machines



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WASHING'MACHZNE. I

'No.179 ,33:6. Patented June 27,1876. J'y/K Z C 1f IITNBSES:

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UNITED STATES PATENT IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,336, dated June 27, 1876; application filed April 25, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS MUIR, of An des, Delaware county, New York, have invented a new and Improved Washing-Machine,

fected, and by the use of two-reversed conical rollers the clothes are made to pass straightly through the rolls.

Figure l is a plan view, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation, of my improved machine.

Arepresents the tub; B, the flu ted or grooved roller extending across it in the upper part, and

being fixed in bearings in the sides, and having a hand-crank, D, for turning it. E E represent the conical rollers located on the fluted roller, and pressed down on it by a Weighted lever, F, to which the bearing-blocks G are attached by rods H and the cross-bars I.

The weight can be shifted along the-lever to vary the pressure, as may be desired.

The surface-speed of the rollers E varies according to their taper, so as to efl'ect a rubbing action on the clothes, thus makingthe machine very efficient,notwithstanding its simplicity.

, Having thus described my inventiomlclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination, in a washing-machine, of the vertically-adjustable conical rollers E with the fluted bottom roller B, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

THOMAS MUIR.

Witnesses:

JAS. F. SCOTT, ARCHIE GLADSTONE. 

